This panel invites papers that focus on the representation of utopiasand dysopias in literature. Papers may address the social, political,economical, economic, and cultural locations of ideal worlds ornightmare worlds from a wide variety of periods and places and from allparts of the world. Possible topics may include, but are not limitedto:

-religious utopianism-ecotopian fiction-scientific and technological utopias-capitalism and the market ideal-communism and proletarian revolutions-empire and post-colonial freedoms-patriarchy and its discontents